Earlier this week, Netflix, the online movie rental service, announced it will award $1 million to anyone who can come up with an algorithm that improves the accuracy of its movie recommendation ...

After a long refinement process, Netflix finally released its first “global” recommendation engine in December. The engine takes dozens of algorithms into account and compares you with similar users ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Machine learning is, at heart, the art of finding patterns in data. That’s why businesses love it. Patterns ...